Kolkata’s Ganga ghats are becoming a lively canvas ... a surge of activity—from the solemnity of Mahalaya’s early morning tarpan to the colourful gathering of friends and couples dressed ...

“In 2002, I first visited the Ganga ghats after Durga and Kali puja was over in Kolkata. I found thousands of structures just dumped in the water. I took photographs and moved court,” he remember ...

The work for the restoration of Adi Ganga is the second biggest revival project under the Namami Gange Programme. Basically, a stream that was part of the Hooghly River flowing in the Kolkata area ...

The National Green Tribunal has prohibited Chhath rituals at Rabindra Sarobar and Subhas Sarobar, two of Calcutta’s largest ...

“When I go to bed at night in Calcutta, I am sleeping 11 miles away from that plant,” Dawson said. “When I get out of that bed and come to work here in the morning I am 14 miles from that plant. And ...

Almost 2,000 km away, on the serene Ganga in Kolkata, music travels far ... Finally, as flute maestro Ajay Prasanna’s morning ragas merge with the sound of bells from the temples on the shore ...

Chhath Puja observances across West Bengal drew thousands of devotees to the ghats for morning prayers. Despite lower noise pollution, air quality levels rose during the festivities, posing health ...

Kolkata, Nov 8 (PTI) People in large numbers offered morning prayers to the rising sun on the last ... in 80 waterbodies across the city and 28 along the Ganga. Chhath is observed on the sixth day of ...

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Kolkata's Ganga ghats are bustling with rituals, reunions, and festive cheer as Durga Puja approaches. Mahalaya's tarpan rituals honor ancestors, marking Debipokkho's start. Later, the ghats turn ...